Cultural influence on a building (see comments)

Current ideas about visual literacy. (see comments)

visual literacy for castellammare di stabia:
-it seems as though there is a greater issue at hand in the the southern part of the gulf of Napoli.
a. the water is forgotten (people can not engage the water as much as once was possible.
b. visual literacy is also an issue (the understanding of society in this area and the surrounding is diminishing.)
c. not many are aware of it (there is a program RAS in the area of Castellammare which is trying to accomplish some of the issues at hand and restore and promote the history of the Villas along the coast above the city. )

-Perhaps there is more to do here then anyone thesis can accomplish. But it can be the start, or continuation of an already ongoing transformation in the city and above on the hillside.

The immediate context allows for both the use of an abandoned site that seems to be a key player in the change to the city. The vast array of visual resources that are currently underused in the area also becomes applicable to this thesis.

Eric Owen Moss understands the Ise Shrine in Japan similar to the way the silo complex is : "The temple 'is fixed, constant, unmoving and eternal; at the same time it is in flux, ephemeral, changing and limited.'"

Some primliminary shots of the site:

the start of reusing the site

This discussion with Katie Wallace lead to a re-understanding of the iconic adaptive reuse:

Architecture: Built, Thing, for People

If one is to reuse an existing iconic relic and reuse it 'for people', it needs to be about just that, for people. Just as grain was once transported from the boats-->pier-->silos, with both quantifiable and unquantifiable attributes, then 'people' need to be perceived as with the same results. People now become both observing and observed.
Ex.
How does that grain (people) get up there?
So, the grain (people) move through the pier into the bridge?